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Monday, April 29, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  Police Violently Arrest University of Texas Students Protesting Genocide in Gaza "After 205 days of genocide and almost 40,000 Palestinian martyrs, it is shameful that UT continues to invest in mass murder and resorts to brutal intimidation tactics to try to silence its own students," said one protester. By Brett Wilkins Poor People's Campaign Plans June 29 Mass Assembly, March in DC "This is a crisis moment for our democracy," said one campaigner. "We need for our political leaders to become moral leaders and take seriously the needs and priorities of the millions of people struggling simply to survive." By Jessica Corbett 'We Do Not Support' ICC Probe of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, Says White House "ICC warrants against Israel and Hamas will offer the West a choice: Either torpedo the international criminal justice project they have advanced since 1945 for good or hypocritically demand impunity for Israeli war crimes." By Jessica Corbett To Remove 'Cloud of Doubt,' Journalism Professors Urge Review of NYT Story on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence Nothing can "reverse the damage done to Palestine and to Palestinians," said the professors, "but the Times could still reverse some of the damage it has done to itself with its silence." By Julia Conley Seven 'Incredible' Earth Defenders Honored With Goldman Environmental Prize One winner said the award "signifies an international recognition that we are facing a new stage in humanity," one in which "human beings understand they are part of nature." By Brett Wilkins Israel Kills Daughter, Infant Grandson of Slain Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer "I have beautiful news for you. I wish I could tell you in person. Do you know you have just become a grandfather?" Shaima Alareer wrote to her slain father before she, her baby, and her husband were killed. By Brett Wilkins

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■ More News Columbia Gives Student Encampment 2PM Deadline to Pack Up—Or Else 'This Is Who They Are Targeting': Israeli Bombs Kill At Least 5 Children In Rafah excerpt: Israeli airstrikes killed between 20 and 30 people in Rafah Sunday night, including at least five children. Among the slain children was a one-year-old boy whose parents had been trying to have a child for 10 years before he was finally born. "This is who they are targeting," the boy's uncle, Mahmoud Abu Taha, said in a video shot by CNN in the courtyard of Rafah's Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital. "This is their objective. This is the generation they're looking for. This is the safe Rafah they talk about." "Nowhere is safe. The entire Gaza Strip is a target." As Abu Taha spoke, he lifted the lifeless body of his nephew toward the camera. "His name is Deif-Allah (meaning guest in Arabic) and he was indeed a guest," Abu Taha further toldReuters. "He came as a guest after (his parents) longed for (him) for so long, after 10 years." "Ten people (were killed), the mother, her daughter, her granddaughters, her grandson, her son-in-law, their daughters and relatives, everyone.They're all gone, all 10 of them," Abu Taha added. As the threat of a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah still looms, the Israeli Defense Forces have continued to regularly bomb Gaza's southernmost city, where more than 1.5 million Gazans have fled seeking relative safety from Israel's lethal assault on the enclave. Airstrikes late Sunday into early Monday struck three homes, The Associated Press reported: The first killed 11 people, including four siblings aged 9 to 27, according to records at the Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital, where the bodies were taken. The second strike killed eight people, including a 33-year-old father and his 5-day-old boy, according to hospital records. The third strike killed three siblings, aged 23, 19, and 12. An Associated Press reporter saw the bodies at the hospital. According to the video shot by CNN, the name of the five-day-old boy was Ghaith Abu Rayya. "We are all alone. Nobody cares about us," a man cried out in the video as he opened a small body bag show Abu Rayya's head. He said the rest of the infant's body had been destroyed by the bomb. Another mourner at the hospital told CNN, "Nowhere is safe. The entire Gaza Strip is a target." People of Gaza Thank US Students Demanding End to Israeli Bombardment US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu

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■ Opinion Plastic Poisons People. Will the Biden Administration Protect Us? No one is immune to the impacts of plastic pollution, and we are running out of time. By Break Free From Plastic Us Student Protests Present Biden With Chance to Do the Right Thing on Gaza The Biden camp continues to dismiss polls showing the President losing support among young and “minority” voters. This is a dangerous miscalculation. By James Zogby 'Otherwise': The Word That Could Save Trump From Insurrection Conviction The outcome of the case could hinge on how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets a single word contained in the obstruction statute. By Bill Blum

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